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0 pointschii2y ago0 comments

> That doesn’t require a precise set of requirements.

this exactly.

If the AI could make something that semi works, and you check the output, and repeat until you find the output satisfying, then it will be one of the biggest improvements to software development. Sure, you wouldn't use it to write mission critical software such as aviation, etc. But you'd use it to automate the sorting of your email, or write a quick auto-reply and auto mail merge, or bang out a quick site.

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Turskarama2y ago

Then people will use it in production and hit edge case after edge case. Software engineers have spent their careers learning to spot these in advance and deal with them, while AI will just have to guess what to do, or just let the program crash.

Let me tell you, with some of the tickets I've had to deal with I do not think most people could actually describe the problem accurately enough to an AI to actually fix the issue.

cyanydeez2y ago

Job postings in 10 years are gonna torture themselves not to name some random model as the only way to churn out bug fixes for some no longer supported model and it's frozen in time language of choice.

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